#16  by
astwood 
, Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:29 pm
You couldnt beat those old steam trains pure nostalgia
 
 
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#17  by
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, Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:12 pm
When I was a kid use to go train spotting at snow hill station ,still go to the severn valley railway ,can get a bus from telford centre.
 
 
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#18  by
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, Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:13 pm
Quote: astwood  wrote in post #16   You couldnt beat those old steam trains pure nostalgiai agree astwood...i love em
 
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#19  by
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, Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:14 pm
I will be on the narrow guage ones in north wales again this year
 
 
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#20  by
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, Sun Mar 15, 2015 5:23 am
astwood im off to snowdonia on friday just for the weekend..was hoping to go on the snowdonia railway summit trip but they dont start the full trip to the top until may so will go on the ffestiniog narrow gauge instead...will also visit portmeiron where the tv prog the prisoner was filmed..always wanted to visit there so thats the two days sorted..
 
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#21  by
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, Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:17 pm
It looks like i will be going to wales next sunday our steve has to take his wife and her mother to holyhead in anglesea to get the ferry so me and the son will stop up there till the tuesday till they come back from dublin
 
 
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#22  by
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, Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:19 pm
Lucky you that sounds like a nice trip with your son pal.
 
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#23  by
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, Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:21 pm
We went all round anglesea a few years back we rented a cottage right on the menai straits
 
 
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#24  by
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, Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:24 pm
We went all round anglesea a few years back we rented a cottage right on the menai straits[/quote] I have never been around there, but I have heard it's a great part of the world.
 
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#25  by
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, Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:30 pm
We are only going because steves mother in law wants to spend her 70th birthday in dublin where she was born
 
 
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